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The Autumn 2009 program is no longer accepting applications
Next program starts: Autumn 2010
Details will be posted in Spring
Single courses may be available
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The course curriculum is aligned to move from developing teams (forming, storming) to leading teams (norming, performing) and to navigating and leading change (evaluating, negotiating and improving).
Classes meet on the Seattle campus one weekday evening per week.
Interested in taking a single class? Some courses (designated by a 
below) may be open on a space-available basis to professionals who are not seeking the certificate. See Single-Course Enrollment for details.
Autumn Course
Developing Teams
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Oct. 5-Dec. 7, 2009; $1,399; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: Herbert Hoffman and Kurt O'Brien
This course provides the assessment tools, skills and practice for your personal leadership development and provides the practical methods, knowledge and practice to:
- Build a cohort of peers to support your personal leadership development
- Develop a well-informed vision of a high performing team
- Understand your leadership style and strengths
- Assess your team to understand high performance "inhibitors" and "enablers"
- Understand the guiding principles of transformational leadership
The course fee includes costs for a set of skill and style assessments.
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Winter Course
Leading Teams
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Jan. 4-Mar. 15, 2010; $1,099; 3 CEUs.
Instructor: E. Arthur Self
This course goes to the next level. It takes a whole systems approach to leadership, equipping managers to ask the right questions, drive change and establish practices that will enable high performance. To do this, the instructor asks critical questions about your organizational and departmental challenges, then guides participants towards the answers that become the keys to successfully driving their businesses forward and improving bottom line results.
Some of the key questions the program participants will learn to answer include how to:
- Assess organization and set productive team direction
- Shape strategic initiatives where my team is engaged
- Empower team members, distribute control, establish metrics, timelines and accountabilities that motivate high performance and success rates
- Gain credibility, trust and honesty within your team
- Influence team toward attainment of organizational vision, mission and goals
How to sign up for individual enrollment in this course
Spring Course
Navigating and Leading Change
Schedule: (10 sessions) Mondays, 6-9 p.m., Mar. 29-June 7, 2010; $1,099; 3 CEUs.
Instructors: Carolyn Gellerman and John Morefield
A combination of management techniques, tools and skills will be honed in this course to equip team leaders with the ability to achieve sustained high performance, overcome crises or systemic challenges and manage cross-group conflict. This course will enhance the team manager's ability to build the trust, respect and openness required for sustained success. Topics include learning how to:
- Understand team and stakeholder needs
- Reach agreement during conflict
- Manage polarities
- Deliver a positive NO
- Collaboratively develop a plan to better navigate challenges and lead change.
